Get off my lawn photograph!
December 3, 2007 11:43 AM Subscribe
Kitchen Budapest is a collective that is aiming to render photographs on land through robotic grass cutting. The project is called Landprint.
They've modded a lawn mower with mixers in the hopes of successfully producing lawn works visible from the air. The artist rendering of what they hope for is pretty neat. The "hello" they nearly got the landmower to cut, is not. [via]. They're also doing other cool projects.
They've modded a lawn mower with mixers in the hopes of successfully producing lawn works visible from the air. The artist rendering of what they hope for is pretty neat. The "hello" they nearly got the landmower to cut, is not. [via]. They're also doing other cool projects.
I thought the "HELLC" was pretty neat, at least for a dot matrix style printer. If they add controllable height to those mixers I think they could pull off decent photos.
posted by waxboy at 12:00 PM on December 3, 2007
posted by waxboy at 12:00 PM on December 3, 2007
I dunno about this. "Robotic law mowers" sound like something out of a Stephen King story.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 12:07 PM on December 3, 2007
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 12:07 PM on December 3, 2007
Yes! I had this idea a long time ago, but was too lazy to actually pursue it. If they get it to work, there a lot of grassy hillsides overlooking suburban neighborhoods that could use a good goatse-ing...
posted by Potsy at 12:22 PM on December 3, 2007
posted by Potsy at 12:22 PM on December 3, 2007
Oh come on, what kind of results could they possibly produce with a "modded" lawnmower on a-- HOLY CRAP IS THAT A SHADED PORTRAIT?!!1?!
posted by gwint at 12:28 PM on December 3, 2007
posted by gwint at 12:28 PM on December 3, 2007
Alas, gwint, it's just an artist's rendering. They weren't super-aggressive about pointing that out, were they?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 12:38 PM on December 3, 2007
posted by Horace Rumpole at 12:38 PM on December 3, 2007
It's a long way from "HELLC" to the Mona Lisa...I'll check back in a few years.
posted by The Light Fantastic at 2:55 PM on December 3, 2007
posted by The Light Fantastic at 2:55 PM on December 3, 2007
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Great. Can't wait for Central Park brought to you by Budweiser.
posted by rooftop secrets at 12:00 PM on December 3, 2007